From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
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Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: increase atomic coherent pool size for armada 370/XP
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:09:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025160928.53daf18a@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201210251346.41596.arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:46:41 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Seems like the driver is too lazy and allocates everything coherent
> > to avoid the hassle of doing dma_map/dma_unmap operations when
> > needed, but I haven't looked in details at the driver yet to see if
> > it would be possible to switch those DMA coherent allocations into
> > non-coherent allocations + appropriate calls to the DMA operations.
>
> Using coherent allocations is fine, I was wondering whether they need
> to be atomic or not.
You're raising a good point here: all the dma_pool_alloc()
allocations done by sata_mv are GFP_KERNEL. So why are we having
problems with the /atomic/ coherent pool size? Is it the libata core
that's doing GFP_ATOMIC DMA coherent allocations. It doesn't seem so.
Something's odd.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 13:49 [PATCH 0/2] Adding SATA support for Armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-24 13:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm: mvebu: increase atomic coherent pool size for armada 370/XP Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 5:29 ` Marek Szyprowski
2012-10-25 11:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-25 11:43 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-25 13:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-25 14:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-10-24 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm: mvebu: adding SATA support: dt binding and config update Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-24 14:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-24 14:05 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:18 ` Jason Cooper
2012-10-25 13:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-25 13:34 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:57 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 16:00 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 13:35 ` Jason Cooper
2012-10-25 13:53 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 14:11 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 14:27 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-24 14:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-10-24 14:45 ` Gregory CLEMENT
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